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• ‟ I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.

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• ‟ I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.

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• ‟ Usually, the kills are almost Wile E. Coyote kind of things in horror movies.

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• ‟ Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

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• ‟ It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.

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• ‟ I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we've had so many vampire movies.

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• ‟ I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

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• ‟ I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.

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• ‟ I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

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• ‟ I like to branch out as much as I can, but I feel like the movies that are closest to my heart are 'The Wackness' and '50/50' - the ones that are dramedies that have that human element to them.

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• ‟ Do I wish I was Martin Scorsese? Yeah. But am I really proud of the movies I've made and really happy that I get to keep making them? Yes.

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• ‟ I just think a lot of movies are too long. I want to know how to make my movie as tight as possible.

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